richard nixon called for working together in his 1974 address, a year after his landslide reelection. >> i want you to know that i have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job the people elected me to do. >> instead two months later, nixon owned up to his roll n watergate and eventually resigned. ronald reagan was swept into a second term with a 49-state landslide. >> there no constraints and no walls around the human spirit and no barriers. >> many of the second term plans fell to the wayside as his administration was consumed. in 1997 after leading americans through four years of economic growth, president clinton promised something that hasn't been done in three decades. >> we must keep the economy the strongest in the world and have an historic opportunity. let this congress be the congress that finally balances the budget. >> with the help of congress, he did. tonight another stares down ghosts of the past, hoping to find a new way forward for an uncertain nation. and joining us now from the white house, director of the national economic council, gene sperling. co